Authors / Darren Platt

Darren Platt

VP of Engineering at Strata Identity

About:

Darren Platt is foundational to what is now known as identity and access management. Throughout his life and career, a scientist’s curiosity has led him to question how things are done, and passion-fueled determination has driven him to find the answers.

His contributions are vast and include creating the technology SAML is based on and driving the formation of the SAML technical committee, and contributing to the creation of OAuth and the WS-* set of specifications, then building the technology to implement them with such products as ClearTrust (acquired by RSA), Ping Federate, and Symplified’s IDaaS product (also acquired by RSA).

Darren has led engineering teams at Securant Technologies, Ping Identity, Simplified, RSA, and Oracle. He is now the VP of Product Management and Engineering at Strata Identity, where he is building the first distributed Identity Orchestration platform for distributed environments and contributing to the new policy orchestration standard, IDQL and its reference software Hexa.

Specialization:

Darren Platt is a pioneer in identity and access management, instrumental in developing foundational technologies like SAML, OAuth, and WS-*, and leading engineering teams to create and implement industry-defining identity solutions.

Education:

Rutgers University

Accomplishments

Currently building the first distributed Identity Orchestration platform for distributed environments and contributing to the new policy orchestration standard, IDQL, and its reference software Hexa.
Led the engineering teams at Securant Technologies, Ping Identity, Simplified, RSA, and Oracle.
Created the technology SAML is based on and drove the formation of the SAML technical committee
Contributed to the creation of OAuth and the WS-* set of specifications
Built the technology to implement standards ClearTrust (acquired by RSA), Ping Federate, and Symplified’s IDaaS product (also acquired by RSA)

The latest from Darren Platt

Product & Engineering

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Pledge

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App Identity Modernization

Eliminate security vulnerabilities with app modernization

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